Help with honoring a longtime User who just passed away

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    planetdreamdiaries · Member ·

    Hello, I am a very close friend of Natalie Scarberry (i.e. https://sacredtouches.com/), who just passed today I’m sure. I hope (I’m going to speak with her about it after a few days pass, it’s too soon), that her daughter will keep her site going, as it’s an enormous memorial to Natalie, and gift to the world to leave her site live and online. However, until it’s time to speak with her about it, which I will once flying to TX for the funeral, I was hoping that support could help me. Not many of Natalie’s followers are the same as mine, and it would mean oh so much to me, for her, that her followers see the post I created for her (planetdreamdiaries ‘heart of natalie,’ before we knew she was passing, updating it once she did. It truly is (song, art and poem) the genuine heart of Natalie. Since I don’t want to speak to her family about it this soon, hours after she’s passed, I was hoping WP has the rights or tools to create a post on Natalie’s account that links them to mine (none of them know what’s happened, and other than creating comments to try and update them, not many check comments at all, let alone those of week(s) old posts. That, or possibly share my post on her site, as in essence that would be the perfect last post to show on her site (the one I created). It’s a beautiful closing to every single post she’s ever posted. Might you please be able to help me with this? Natalie posted countless posts a day, she adored WP and expressing her flowers, heart and favorite authors and quotes on it as much as she did much else. Leaving her site/expression of her heart without the final post, seems wrong, wrong for her, wrong for those who followed and were drawn to her. In Orlando right now, unable to fly to TX until she passed, giving her immediate family time alone with her during this time, has been difficult – not holding her hand, kissing her forehead and saying goodbye has been difficult (though necessary – she would have wanted her family to have their time alone with her). All I could do, was create something she would have loved so much, that captures her heart, and place it in her favorite place … WP (on my site). Funeral arrangements will begin tomorrow at which time I will find out when I’ll be flying to TX and then hope for the right moment to speak to them about her site, but until then, not only are there many who have been left up in the air without knowing that she didn’t make it – but it’s the last gift I can give to her, something she would love, something she would treasure, something that is the essence and heart of Natalie. Might you please be able to create a post on her site that says something like *** For An Update on Natalie *** and then place a link on her page to my site and post named Heart of Natalie? Might you please copy it over from my site (leaving it on my site as well) to her site and creating a complete double of it on her site in a new post, so that all of her followers will see it in the reader, since she hasn’t posted since prior to losing consciousness?

    Anything you can do to help, in honor of a beautiful 76 year old woman with the heart of an angel, who lived in love and flowers would mean so very much to me – but I also know in my soul that it would mean the world to her.

    Thank you in advance, and if unable, please wish her a safe journey.

    Kimberly (PlanetDreamDiaries)

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi Kimberly,

    Please accept my condolences for the loss of your friend.

    But I am afraid we cannot help you. Under no circumstances can we post content created by a third party on another person’s site. We cannot even do this at the request of Natalie’s immediate family.

    We have a process via which someone in her family can claim ownership of her WordPress.com account and all sites it owns, at which point they’ll be able to post or allow others to post to the site.

    Deceased Site Owner

    But unless someone goes through that process that site will remain as-is until such time as its upgrades expire, at which point it will revert to the original free WordPress.com address. The content of the site will not be touched in any way unless someone with the right to do so completes the process I linked to above to claim ownership of the site.

    I know this is not what you’d hoped to hear, but I hope you understand.

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